Technology Addiction

An individual, upon returning home from school, university or office has the remaining day left at his or her disposal. The individual has a choice to have a personal life and at the same time also ensure that he or she connects to the world of internet. Regardless of the number of chores that an individual has, he or she is drawn towards logging online and the intensity is so high that he or she logs onto the internet out of curiosity. Curiosity to see whether there is an email waiting for him, or a tweet online or it could be the new picture that must have been posted on the internet. People are drawn chronically and they sit for hours on the internet and it becomes difficult for them to walk away. It becomes difficult to convince oneself that connecting themselves to the real world is more important since that is the reality but it is still difficult to convince oneself and detach from it. This is called technology addiction or also known as popcorn brain. A brain that is said to be so conditioned and accustomed to the consistent stimulation of multitasking electronically that they tend to have an impression that they are highly unfit for the life that exists offline or the life that exists in reality. The technology addicted person is said to lose the confidence that he or she has in oneself since the individual is said to be disconnected to the outside world and hence loses the touch he had in terms of socializing and eventually has inferiority complex.

Professor at the IT School of the Washington University known as Mr. Levy has said to narrate a story in one of his speech whereby he said that an employee cam up to him after the lunch break and told him that his wife had asked him to give bath to his daughters and instead of doing so he spent time checking his phone and replying to mobile messages which weren't even important, he emailed back to people which wasn't urgent, he also ensured that he called back people he had missed calls from. The employee confessed the fact that he did not have work to do but it was the urge that made him ignore his children and use his phone. A psychologist at Clifford studied the technology addicts and at the same time stated that multi tasking that is done on the internet has an impact on the users. He showed his sample some faces of people with different expressions and shockingly they could not recognize the emotions that people had on their faces. Even when the stories were read to them they could not identify with the emotions that were present in the novels and when they were asked as to what they would do to make such characters feel pleasant, they had no idea. He concluded that addicts tend to have a hard time when it comes to recognizing people He further ...